Blogs from New Brunswick, Canada, North America - page 16

Roosevelt Campobello Park is the only US national park not located in the United States. FDR's summer cottage is open to visitors. ... read more

After we made stops in Maine at York Beach to see our friends, we headed up the coast to Portland, Bar Harbor, Auburn, Lewiston, and Acadia National Park. After spending the night in Bangor, we finally arrived in Canada for some Whale Watching! Observed several finbacks and a minke. We also saw a bald eagle, jellyfish, and harbor porpoises. Great trip!... read more

Continuing on the checklist of people to see and things I wanted to do while I was home. This time the Volkswagen and I were on our way to southern New Brunswick to a place just outside of Saint John called Grand Bay to visit my great friend since childhood, Eric. Eric's birthday was in the near future so we had at least one excuse to do some celebrating. Now Eric is one of my best childhood friends, as we grow up together, played sports together, got in trouble together and all the other things that occur on the road from boyhood to manhood. So when we get together we laugh, joke, wrestle and usually get rowdy and cause scenes. Now, Miranda (Eric's girlfriend) had made some reservations at a nice restaurant in the city. So ... read more

If you started reading this blog way back in January, I can only thank you for persevering with us for this long and following our trip to the end. This is the final post in the blog and as you might have noticed, there are a lot of photos to get through. 78 in all. As a reward for your diligence I’m not going to waffle on too much. Hopefully the photos’ll do a good job of telling the tale of our summer, which after Montreal was one long beach bask. The cottages, which are arranged on a plot of land in the little seaside town of Shediac, are a two-minute walk from the beach. So on sunny days we would go to the beach, armed with a good book and a stern determination to get ... read more

That's exactly what I thought when the idea of a weekend picnic was first mooted. Turns out though, there were no scotch eggs in sight, nor were there lashings and lashings of ginger beer. Luckily enough, it was even better an English afternoon beside the riverbank. This was The Picnic. Or the Pique-nique to give it the French name. This is the big family event where everyone from the three branches of the family tree - Gould, Chiasson and Malenfant - get together for a three day party over a weekend in July. The weekend is whichever one falls closest to the birthday of Victorine Bourque, who was Emilie’s grandmother's Mum, and so the matriarch of the three families. The old farm house in which Em’s grandmother Geraldine was raised is still on the plot of ... read more